What does the great New York director Spike Lee consider the most iconic New York movie?

Stephen Colbert wanted to know.

“Well, it wasn’t actually shot in New York,” Lee told Colbert. “It was shot in New Jersey.”

Hoboken, specifically.

Lee called “ On the Waterfront ” his “favorite of all time.”

The 1954 Oscar-winning Elia Kazan film stars Marlon Brando and a cast including Newark native Eva Marie Saint .

The answer was most pleasing to a New Jersey crowd.

“If you’ve not seen ‘On the Waterfront,’ see it tonight,” Lee told the audience Saturday at the Montclair Film Festival .

The Academy Award-winning filmmaker was in town for a conversation with Colbert at the Wellmont Theater, where he received the festival’s filmmaker tribute award.

Lee also talked about how he col

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